i bet that daze will be much more agreessive incoming patch - like 1 atack and you are dismounted.
boosts MAU and token sales because people will swap between waterwalking and antidaze.
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or just be tank
or get shield azerite trait
It seems thatâs all Blizz is doing lately: removing what we earnt along the expansions: Water walking, convenience of portals.
âFun detected fun removedâ never been so true, if we wanted the hard way we could just wait for classic, this is ridiculous.
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Only one question to ask really.
Are they going to be renaming the mount?
I mean itâs hardly going to be a water strider when itâs canât walk on water. Yes, I know it will be able to with the equipment but the very name of the mount implies water walking.
Going to be interesting to see how often you are going to need to replace the mount equipment.
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Well, when you say everybody you mean the ones that did earn that mount. See thatâs the thing, the only people being affected by this are the ones who invested into it. (It doesnât matter how easy or hard it was, you had to do something for it.)
If someone doesnât like the waterstrider or does not want to do the rep grind, that is fine. From 8.2 onwards you got options.
Will it be slightly beneficial to have the waterstrider intact without the new item slot of this new system alongside with the other mounts? Yes. That is why someone chose to do rep grind for it. Will it be game breaking? No, not at all.
So why break it?
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I think itâs a stupid changeâŚbutâŚseeing as flying is being added in this patch, the strider mount, combined with the new mount perks waterwalking/anti-daze/slowfall will basically be useless for the rest of the expansion
If you have the mount unlocked you will get a FREE mount equipment piece that has the waterwalking effect in the mail.
I love this change. The mount is ugly and I hated using it.
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Iâm not sure Iâd describe it as fun detected. We will gain the ability to water walk or another ability on any mount.
Iâm sad itâs going to cost the water strider itâs one purpose though.
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Yeah just would have more sense to exempt it like the sky golem and give it no ability from the equipment.
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I may be incorrect but from watching the stream and reading the links, if you already have a waterstrider you get free water walking boots. Equip the boots and it applies to all your mounts. If you choose to change that to another item such as anti-daze then decide to change back to waterwalking, you can buy it again from the anglers but at a reduced cost if you already had the waterstrider.
With flying and WM Iâd likely have opted for the parachute more than anything but not at the expense of having the ability to walk on water. Removing that ability from the strider is really annoying. Looks like itâll be the anglers raft getting heavy use from now on.
It would be far better to be able to pick and choose which mount gets what bonus rather than it apply to all of them or just let the strider retain the feature that caused those of us that have it to buy it in the first place.
Of courseâŚ
IM SO fed up with B taking things from me i payed for or worked for, only to find i have to do it again. F that. Thats not new content or anything. Its theft, nothing else.
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Hello Blizzard!
Anyone aboard?
A few years ago you show me the farm and you show me the reward. I accept and i get the mount for all my characters automatically.
Why i have to pay even a single copper to get it again on all chars and in the future ones i choose to create, is beyond my comprehension.
Even if the item i need to get is free i must logged in with a character that can get it from the vendor and mail it to my character.
This is punishment for me.
Donât break the deals you make with your customers many years ago.
After the portal gate we get the water stride gate !!!
My dk alt says hi 
So what do you propose they do instead geniuses?
Not put the system in at all? Oh yea great idea.
Make it so the Waterstrider has the water-walking innate? So then you can equip the anti-daze âmodâ? Hmm⌠then everyone uses the Water Strider again.
Make it so the Water Strider is magically an exception to the universal system, so then it canât equip other mods?
What have you actually lost here? NOTHING functionally. Even the bloody free water walking âmodâ will be mailed to you, so you donât even have to travel to get it.
I mean bloody hell when you read the kind of crap complaining about this âissueâ, itâs no wonder Blizzard only read but rarely respond on the official forums.
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Guys, please. Even without looking at any additional info, it was obvious to me that the system would be incorporated in the same/similar way you just plop equipment on a follower.
Youâre not going to be buying 20 bazillion items and replacing them any time you take damage or lose an effect. You basically choose what effects you wish to apply to your mounts, equip it, and enjoy the effect. Water-Walking gets cancelled on damage - this does not mean you lose the equipment. Now, if you wish to SWAP that equipment, chances are youâll need to destroy the previous one by equipping a replacement (much like Shipyard / Follower Gear), but that isnât too bad.
As someone who does NOT have a Waterstrider (and took a look at that past grind and decided never to bother⌠Yes, going as far as using a slow Sea Turtle for swimming and engineering boats for water-crossing), this is a good change. I can understand the people who partook in the original grind being a bit upset, yet at least you can buy the relevant equipment from your vendor at a much, much cheaper price than Joe Soap who never did it at all.
Iâll have to fork out a few thousand while you probably get water-walking for all your mounts for the sake of some pocket change.
So instead of just mounting my strider on any of my 50 chars, i have to go to anglers in panda, buy a shtload of items for all of them and have all lose another space in their bags.
Somehow i dont see that as an improvement. Its just another useless, boring, change of content to keep me logged in, doing things i hate to do.
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Maybe better read the article. The 2 shredders canât use the equipment. Do this also for the 2 striders, strider only water walking mount pre-100 and shredders only mounts who can herb/mine. Nice for Bliz to tell me all those hatefull hours I spend fishing were for nothing.
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You only have to buy the item once for a character to use it on all mounts, I dunno where youâre getting the shtload of items from?
My reading of it is you only need to buy another one if you change the boots for something else then need to change back. As with the strider, if you get hit by anything it drops the waterwalking so you need to remount, rather than losing the item itself.
So i have to buy 50 items, mail them all to each and every char, which have to keep it in their bags, or click and use and then it stays forever on that char?
Still, how is that an improvement over any char i have just clicking strider. Because i put the strider on every chars bar, like all special mounts i use.
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